Line #14 YMMV/EternalFighterZero


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Chances are, if you know about ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'', and/or ''MOON'', it's because their characters are in ''Eternal Fighter Zero''. Special mention goes to ''MOON'', as it's so obscure it doesn't have an anime or TV Tropes page.
2	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Misuzu's Final Memory is [[ItWasHisSled a recreation of her final moments in life]] and she takes three steps forward towards her opponent. Seeing the attack connect, especially when winning a round with it, recalls one of the most somber moments in ''AIR''. Seeing her miss only to trip and fall flat on her face while her clothes and hair suddenly return to normal, however, ends up circling back around to being hilarious.
3	* DancingBear: The casts of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', and ''VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE'' are in ''Eternal Fighter Zero''. This is the only reason why anyone actually gets around to watching these series (or playing their visual novels).
4	* GameBreaker: Kanna, simply Kanna: Her attacks have huge range and priority, and she wasn't nerfed for the multiplayer, which means players can abuse her high-priority attacks and damage outputs, so she's normally banned from high-level play. Fighting style-wise, she's like a combination of Justice and Dizzy, both from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''.
5	* HilariousInHindsight:
6	** The game has a cast of 23 playable characters, distributed in an 8x3 grid, with the second place of the last row reserved for the random select. Several years later, comes ''[[VideoGame/ArcanaHeart Arcana Heart 3: LOVE MAX!!!!!]]'', another all-female FightingGame, which use the exact same distribution for its roster.
7	** In this game, Ayu grows wings behind her to fight; later in the 2002 anime version of ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', she's seen with pink wings during the SpoilerOpening.
8	** EFZ may have been the first, but certainly [[FollowTheLeader not the last game]] to put Creator/KeyVisualArts characters to fight [[RuleOfFun just because it's fun]]; we have, for example, ''Kanon and Air Smash'', an AffectionateParody of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' with characters from ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''; and another one called ''Glove On Fight'', a boxing game with SuperDeformed, AxCrazy characters, which features Ayu and Akiko as playables; and there's also ''Tomoyo Fighter'', a series of BeatEmUp games starring, as its name indicates, Tomoyo from ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}''.
9	** In ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', Makoto lost all her memories about her past; Later, EFZ gave her amazing fighting skills and [[TheGunslinger mastery with guns]]. Now, who are we talking about? Makoto Sawatari, or [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne?]]
10	** And this wouldn't be the last time we would see Akiko's CarFu super. Years later, in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', ComicBook/SheHulk would pull the same stunt.
11	** This game also has Misuzu grow wings and plant book traps. In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle would permanently grow wings at the end of Season 3, and in ''VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic'', she has book traps as well.
12	** A brown-haired girl with above-average physical strength has an [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} ice-powered sister]].
13	* IconicCharacterForgottenTitle: Far more people know EFZ's cast from this game than from ''AIR'', ''Kanon'', ''One'', and ''especially Moon''.
14	* MemeticMutation: The [[SpinAttack Sayurispin]], thanks to Sayuri being graduated from [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal's]] school. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Sayuri's Final Memory, called "Magical On-Stage", is based on Rugal's Dead End Screamer from '98 (which was the base for the "You Spin Me Right Round" meme), and it spanned [[FollowTheLeader several imitators]], among them, sweet and innocent Sayuri Kurata.[[/labelnote]]
15	* {{Moe}}: Well, it's a FightingGame with cute and adorable girls, masters of quirky fighting styles, so everyone counts to varying degrees. Special mention to Mayu and Mio for the ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE ONE]]'' side, Sayuri and Nayuki for the ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' side, and Misuzu and Kano for the ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' side. They all even sport moe stares in her portraits.
16	* PopCulturalOsmosis: A number of players had interest in ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'', ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', ''[[VisualNovel/OneKagayakuKisetsuE One]]'' and ''MOON'', simply because of the characters' appearance here. Note that the last novel doesn't even have an anime or TV Tropes page - that's how obscure they are.

Context YMMV / EternalFighterZero